Wednesday, September 23, 2009
22/09/2009
Had to prepare some notes for CCS tomorrow. Seminar in the afternoon with Mark. Again, a quite discursive, in some sense dialectical, informative, and most certainly interesting discourse. Many topics covered from the nihilistic murmerings of Frank Auerbech, to the thought provoking notions of existentialist artists.
Monday, September 21, 2009
21/09/2009
Mark was going around the studio today, having a chat to everyone about their work. Had a good talk to him about what kind of direction my work might be taking this year. I guess it must be a little unusual to have so many non-painters in the painting department. Having made a resolution not to paint this year, I suspect I may have to change my strategies.......... Hmmmmmm.............. Food for thought !
Took video footage of the paints today, hope to edit it tomorrow.
Took video footage of the paints today, hope to edit it tomorrow.
Friday, September 18, 2009
18/09/2009
contd.
The second reason for this is a little more complex. (but you must promise not to laugh). Paint is not a natural product in itself, it has been manipulated, coerced, and refined from mainly natural products, into the product that we know as paint. Artists' then, manipulate, coerce, and refine this paint, for their own creative expressions . What I am proposing, is to give the paint an opportunity to express itself, without the intervention of the quintessential artist. (You promised not to laugh !). You may well ask the question, is this actually possible? My answer to this would be absolutely yes. We live in a universe of unlimited possibilities; Einstein and many others since, have proved this fact. All that remains for us to do then is : KEEP AN OPEN MIND, and see what happens ! I hung several tubes of paint from the ceiling, along with a palette knife, and a couple of paint brushes, and took the lids off the paints. The rest, I leave up to the paint !!! This is a diachronic installation, so the phenomenon will be recorded over a period of time. (On an unsavoury note, when I came in this morning, someone had sabotaged the work; I have a witness who said the work was fine when they saw it earlier in the morning. It was all tangled up, and I had to take half of it down, and redo the work again. This is just not good enough, and I must say I am rather surprised that a fellow artist would interfere with someone elses work.) I am going to make a video of the paints and brushes "twirling", it should look good visually, like a kind of dance of sorts.
The second reason for this is a little more complex. (but you must promise not to laugh). Paint is not a natural product in itself, it has been manipulated, coerced, and refined from mainly natural products, into the product that we know as paint. Artists' then, manipulate, coerce, and refine this paint, for their own creative expressions . What I am proposing, is to give the paint an opportunity to express itself, without the intervention of the quintessential artist. (You promised not to laugh !). You may well ask the question, is this actually possible? My answer to this would be absolutely yes. We live in a universe of unlimited possibilities; Einstein and many others since, have proved this fact. All that remains for us to do then is : KEEP AN OPEN MIND, and see what happens ! I hung several tubes of paint from the ceiling, along with a palette knife, and a couple of paint brushes, and took the lids off the paints. The rest, I leave up to the paint !!! This is a diachronic installation, so the phenomenon will be recorded over a period of time. (On an unsavoury note, when I came in this morning, someone had sabotaged the work; I have a witness who said the work was fine when they saw it earlier in the morning. It was all tangled up, and I had to take half of it down, and redo the work again. This is just not good enough, and I must say I am rather surprised that a fellow artist would interfere with someone elses work.) I am going to make a video of the paints and brushes "twirling", it should look good visually, like a kind of dance of sorts.
17/09/2009
Had an interesting conversation with Peter Morgan this morning. He enquired as to what kind of work I wanted to do this year, I explained a couple of my ideas to him, and he seemed quite interested in them, which was encouraging.
As I am not going to be doing any painting this year (that's the plan anyway), I have decided to hang up my paints (literally !) More about this tomorrow.
As I am not going to be doing any painting this year (that's the plan anyway), I have decided to hang up my paints (literally !) More about this tomorrow.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
16/09/2009
We had a meeting with Mark O Kelly this mornin (Our year head) It went well; very informative, interesting, thought provoking, and quite discursive. Some of my colleagues and I, were quite impressed with what he had to say. We went to an artist talk afterwards, he seemed to be a nice enough fellow, and it was good to hear what kind of endeavours he was undertaking, but I have to say, I was not overly impressed with his work. (That's not to say it was not good, rather, not to my personal liking).
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